רָגַז
râgaz · raw-gaz'
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out, fret, move, provoke, quake, rage, shake, tremble, trouble, be wroth.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to carry, to lift up › to cut, to sustain
The head, the highest that works to carry, to lift up that works to cut, to sustain.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָגַז above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
41 occurrences · 41 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- tremble3 · 9%
- moved2 · 6%
- and thy rage2 · 6%
- because thy rage2 · 6%
- trembled2 · 6%
- did tremble2 · 6%
- unto them, see that ye fall not out1 · 3%
- and be afraid1 · 3%
- of thee, and shall tremble1 · 3%
- quaked1 · 3%
- why hast thou disquieted1 · 3%
- in a place of their own, and move1 · 3%
- was much moved1 · 3%
- in their place, and shall be moved1 · 3%
- which shaketh1 · 3%
- and they that provoke1 · 3%
- stand in awe1 · 3%
- also were troubled1 · 3%
- whether he rage1 · 3%
- is disquieted1 · 3%
- therefore i will shake1 · 3%
- from beneath is moved1 · 3%
- to tremble1 · 3%
- he shook1 · 3%
- he shall be wroth1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.